Companies always seem ready to screw early adopters. Which doesn't make any sense to me, since the early adopters are typically the source of the largest margins in retail spaces. They absolutely have to have it as soon as possible and are willing to pay a premium... only to get burned for it later.
It seems to me that you'd want to nurture your early adopters rather than screw them.
Awesome! I thought the same thing when I read this story! What the parent is a potential source of perpetual energy which relies on the following two assertions:
Assertion 1: Cat's always land on their feet when dropped from above a certain height.
Assertion 2: Buttered toast always lands butter side down when dropped.
The idea is to strap the toast butter side up to the cat and then toss the cat out of the window. The toast will try to land butter side down while the cat tries to land on its feet. The end result is that the cat/toast device will hover a foot or so above the ground spinning in the air.
I've read Gunnm, these space elevators can only lead to a power struggle between the elites at the top of the tower and the service people at the bottom (with a few crafty middle men getting rich transporting the goods!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel/
The Equivalents Doctrines prevent simple substitutions in products as a way of defeating patent protection (subbing Magnesium for Manganese for example.) I think, however, that one of the principles under the Equivalents Doctrines state that if a product has LESS functionality than a patent it does not infringe. It seems likely that RIM will invent a SUBSET of it's orginal functionality and then claim that it doesn't infringe under the Rule of Equivalents.
The ARM929 Chips even have a mechanism called Jazelle which allows Java byte code to be executed natively in hardware. This is another processor mode alongside the existing ARM and Thumb modes.
Have you ever used any of the transfer software packages by RedChair software? I used Anapod Explorer when I owned and Ipod and now that I've traded the Ipod in favor of an Iriver H-140 I use the excellent Irivium Explorer by the same. Good UI, good indexing and dB features.
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When I realized that you didn't have to use trumpet winsock with IE that was reason enough for me to switch. "What, no more trumpet? Dude, I am so there!"
The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal was mentioned in the Guide entry about the Vogons in the movie. The Vogons were in the process of feeding Trillian to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal when she was saved by the last minute paperwork of Dent, Prefect and Beeblebrox in the movie as well...
The paper mentioned is "Reflections on Trusting Trust" and is by Ken Thompson.
http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
Out of curiousity, why is the above post marked "flamebait" when it's a valid point? Oh wait, this is/., forget I asked.
From what I've gathered from this discussion, that is in fact exactly what happened. The movies were shot in 1.33:1 but framed for 1.85:1. That is, it was always intended to matte out some information to preserve the directors vision of the shot. When the fullscreen dvds are released, these mattes are removed and thus you get the whole image as it was when it was filmed that may include boom mics, cables, lights, etc.
Let me try to sum this up in a way that makes sense to myself and the cinema afficianados here at Slashdot can tell me if i understand this correctly. What we've got here are moves that were filmed in 1.33:1 but framed for 1.85:1. That means, technically, when the movie went to the theater information was lost. However, it was always intended for this information to be lost as it is not useful information (booms, props, etc). The lawsuit arose when MGM said that these films contain more information than the widescreen formats, which, in this case is technically not true. I am no cinema buff, my only question is this: Is my copy of Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure being presented to me in the ratio in which the director intended it to be presented?
Is this lower cost Apple revolution an attempt to capture a younger market segment that has been turned on to Apple by the Ipod? I'd like to see numbers that show just how many people have been converted because of the Ipod. I'd bet they were similar to the numbers that show people converting to *nix because of Firefox (i.e. not that many...) I wonder if Apple can survive at the margins?
Seriously, am I the only one who thinks that this is like Piltdown Man all over again. Some foppish rogue fossil hunter is going to go "Haha! Fooled you chaps!" any moment now.
Seriously, my MZ-N1 sony MD player got ridiculous battery life. Something like 30 hours on a single charge with lots of stop and go playback. Sony is being ridculed by a lot of people for the battery life on PSP but who else has a portable gaming system that uses an optical storage medium to compare PSP to? No one that I can think of offhand. Sony is attempting something innovative here and it's probably better to wait and see what happens...
Mel Brooks has been the unofficial/. mascot for the past couple of days...
Getting back onto topic, I wonder what sort of materials something like this would be made out of, it seems like something without rigidity would be more susceptible to micrometeorite punctures? Remembering of course that I'm Computer Science and not Materials Engineering...
Yeah, that Tom Bombadil scene does drag on forever. People (at least some of them) have complained about the length of the LoTR movies but can you imagine how long the movie would have been with Bombadil included?
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Totally in the same boat. This may fall under the label of "the cure is worse than the disease" however.
Companies always seem ready to screw early adopters. Which doesn't make any sense to me, since the early adopters are typically the source of the largest margins in retail spaces. They absolutely have to have it as soon as possible and are willing to pay a premium... only to get burned for it later. It seems to me that you'd want to nurture your early adopters rather than screw them.
Could this prize be an attempt to stimulate commercial moon landings alongside commercial spaceflight?
Awesome! I thought the same thing when I read this story! What the parent is a potential source of perpetual energy which relies on the following two assertions: Assertion 1: Cat's always land on their feet when dropped from above a certain height. Assertion 2: Buttered toast always lands butter side down when dropped. The idea is to strap the toast butter side up to the cat and then toss the cat out of the window. The toast will try to land butter side down while the cat tries to land on its feet. The end result is that the cat/toast device will hover a foot or so above the ground spinning in the air.
I've read Gunnm, these space elevators can only lead to a power struggle between the elites at the top of the tower and the service people at the bottom (with a few crafty middle men getting rich transporting the goods!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel/
The Equivalents Doctrines prevent simple substitutions in products as a way of defeating patent protection (subbing Magnesium for Manganese for example.) I think, however, that one of the principles under the Equivalents Doctrines state that if a product has LESS functionality than a patent it does not infringe. It seems likely that RIM will invent a SUBSET of it's orginal functionality and then claim that it doesn't infringe under the Rule of Equivalents.
Is RIM hoping to invent around and get off the hook by invoking the Rule of Equivalents with the PTO?
The ARM929 Chips even have a mechanism called Jazelle which allows Java byte code to be executed natively in hardware. This is another processor mode alongside the existing ARM and Thumb modes.
Have you ever used any of the transfer software packages by RedChair software? I used Anapod Explorer when I owned and Ipod and now that I've traded the Ipod in favor of an Iriver H-140 I use the excellent Irivium Explorer by the same. Good UI, good indexing and dB features.
When I realized that you didn't have to use trumpet winsock with IE that was reason enough for me to switch. "What, no more trumpet? Dude, I am so there!"
The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal was mentioned in the Guide entry about the Vogons in the movie. The Vogons were in the process of feeding Trillian to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal when she was saved by the last minute paperwork of Dent, Prefect and Beeblebrox in the movie as well...
I sure wouldn't want to be the guy tasked with handling this!
The paper mentioned is "Reflections on Trusting Trust" and is by Ken Thompson. http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ Out of curiousity, why is the above post marked "flamebait" when it's a valid point? Oh wait, this is /., forget I asked.
Ah yes, Stonehenge. Where a man's a man. And the children dance, to the pipes of Pan.
From what I've gathered from this discussion, that is in fact exactly what happened. The movies were shot in 1.33:1 but framed for 1.85:1. That is, it was always intended to matte out some information to preserve the directors vision of the shot. When the fullscreen dvds are released, these mattes are removed and thus you get the whole image as it was when it was filmed that may include boom mics, cables, lights, etc.
Let me try to sum this up in a way that makes sense to myself and the cinema afficianados here at Slashdot can tell me if i understand this correctly. What we've got here are moves that were filmed in 1.33:1 but framed for 1.85:1. That means, technically, when the movie went to the theater information was lost. However, it was always intended for this information to be lost as it is not useful information (booms, props, etc). The lawsuit arose when MGM said that these films contain more information than the widescreen formats, which, in this case is technically not true. I am no cinema buff, my only question is this: Is my copy of Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure being presented to me in the ratio in which the director intended it to be presented?
Is this lower cost Apple revolution an attempt to capture a younger market segment that has been turned on to Apple by the Ipod? I'd like to see numbers that show just how many people have been converted because of the Ipod. I'd bet they were similar to the numbers that show people converting to *nix because of Firefox (i.e. not that many...) I wonder if Apple can survive at the margins?
Seriously, am I the only one who thinks that this is like Piltdown Man all over again. Some foppish rogue fossil hunter is going to go "Haha! Fooled you chaps!" any moment now.
Love them or hate them, you have to admit that its fairly appropriate for these guys to get FP on this story. I think Howard Stern would approve!
Seriously, my MZ-N1 sony MD player got ridiculous battery life. Something like 30 hours on a single charge with lots of stop and go playback. Sony is being ridculed by a lot of people for the battery life on PSP but who else has a portable gaming system that uses an optical storage medium to compare PSP to? No one that I can think of offhand. Sony is attempting something innovative here and it's probably better to wait and see what happens...
Mel Brooks has been the unofficial /. mascot for the past couple of days...
Getting back onto topic, I wonder what sort of materials something like this would be made out of, it seems like something without rigidity would be more susceptible to micrometeorite punctures? Remembering of course that I'm Computer Science and not Materials Engineering...
Yeah, that Tom Bombadil scene does drag on forever. People (at least some of them) have complained about the length of the LoTR movies but can you imagine how long the movie would have been with Bombadil included?
OH, ARGH! Not a Microsoft Office assistant joke. That's like, the worst kind of humor!
If, as has been suggested here, they go the Prequel route, Jack Black as a young Barf would be awesome! Good call!
Kind of like History of the World Part 2? "See Hitler on ice!" Man, I really wish that Brook's would have released that...